Valley Emperor

This attitude of the high level of the empire has directly led to the fact that when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is making specific allocations, the focus is on restraining the possible emergence of major powers in Africa in the future. As for other things, it is generally not considered very much.

The African colonies of European countries have been determined, and discussions are also underway between West Asia and India. It is estimated that it will not be long before they can be determined.

This also means that for many years to come, there will be a massive migration that will affect dozens of countries, with more than 10 million or more people.

Such a large-scale migration will inevitably bring about huge market demand, and the first to bear the brunt is the imperial shipping industry!

The huge transportation demand that broke out rapidly in a short period of time caught the major shipping companies in the empire by surprise!

Even the major shipping companies in the empire now have a lot of ships, but they cannot cope with this kind of transportation demand that has exploded on a large scale in a short period of time.

In the first half of the year, the Pacific Shipping Company just ordered a batch of cheap ships ready to be put into Europe for passenger and freight transportation, so as to expand the empire's business share in Europe and West Asia.

But I didn't expect these ships to be delivered in time, and news came that the six Ottoman countries had migrated to Africa.

The executives of the Pacific Shipping Company are also well-informed people. Even before the six Ottoman countries have officially decided to relocate to Africa, they have already changed the cheap transport ships they ordered before and carried out small-scale modifications to better transport migrants.

And after the six Ottoman countries officially confirmed the relocation, the Pacific Shipping Company used many professional immigrant ships for transporting the 12 countries in the South China Sea in the early years.

At the same time, they also urgently searched for available ships everywhere. Second-hand ships, scrapped ships, and even offshore ships were bought all at once, just to eat the big cake of the migration of the six Ottoman countries to Africa.

However, although their movements were fast enough, they still did not expect the upper levels of the empire to be faster!

It didn't take long before news came out that the Tatars had already decided to go to the west coast of Africa.

Followed by Spain and England, Sweden, Naples and other countries with a large number of votes said to colonize Africa.

These news instantly made the major shipping companies of the Datang Empire boil!

These are all sudden surges in market demand.

But to meet these market demands and make huge profits from them, there must be enough ships!

Although the tonnage of the Tang Empire's ships was already huge. In the 48th year of Xuanping, it had a total tonnage of 14 million tons of merchant ships, but the empire's huge tonnage of merchant ships was almost all to meet its own development needs. Most of them In fact, they all run in the waters of the Western Pacific Ocean.

The routes in the Western Pacific Ocean cover East Asia, Beihai Province, Southeast Asia, South Ocean Islands, and Australia.

There are most of the population of the empire, as well as the industrial and commercial manufacturing and even the consumer market. This is the focus of the empire's major shipping companies.

As for the trans-American and European routes, although they are also increasing year by year, the total volume is still far from being on a par with the routes in the Western Pacific.

Even the ships on the American and European routes actually provide transportation services for overseas Datang people.

How to put it, almost all of the 13 million-ton ships provided transportation services for the Tang people themselves, and the transportation ships provided for the trade between the Tang Dynasty and the indigenous countries were actually very small in tonnage.

Further, the tonnage of ships dedicated to providing transportation services for indigenous countries is even smaller, and they are all non-standard ships.

For example, in the European region, Pacific Shipping Company operates a number of passenger routes and freight routes specially provided for the indigenous market. The vessels operating on these routes are all non-standard vessels.

What is a non-standard vessel, a vessel that does not conform to the norms of the imperial shipping industry!

For example, for passenger ships, the Shipping Department under the Ministry of Communications of the Datang Empire clearly requires that all types of passenger ships engaged in inland shipping, offshore shipping, and ocean shipping must meet quality standards. The quality of the ships, the per capita space, and the number of lifeboats are very strict. of the requirements.

However, this provision is limited to ships that provide passenger services for the people of the Tang Dynasty!

That is to say, if the passenger transportation business of this ship is only open to the indigenous people, then the empire is too lazy to control it, and what your business likes, of course, there will also be minimum standard requirements, this is to protect Datang The safety interests of the crew, as for the interests of indigenous passengers, the uncles from the Ministry of Communications are too lazy to take a look.

This also led to the shipping companies of the Datang Empire, when operating overseas, they often opened passenger routes specifically for indigenous passengers, and in order to reduce costs, they naturally used non-standard ships.

And the appearance of this non-standard ship is not a day or two. More than ten years ago, the major shipping companies of the Datang Empire built a large number of so-called professional immigration ships in order to save costs during the relocation of the twelve countries in the South China Sea. Specifically used to transport indigenous immigrants.

In the actual operation process, not to mention the lucrative profits, and widely praised by the natives of the Southeast Asian countries, they believe that this batch of ships has enough space, and the freight is also within their tolerance, and the most important thing is safety.

In the eyes of the people of the Tang Dynasty, these non-standard ships, which only have more than 1,000 tons and cut corners during construction, are absolutely not safe. If those shipping companies dare to use such ships to operate routes that provide passenger services for the people of the empire, It is absolutely necessary to be fined to the point of doubting life.

However, in the eyes of the indigenous countries, this ship is already very safe.

A thousand-ton iron ship, the ship is large enough, has strong resistance to wind and waves, and also has steam power, which can also have strong resistance in storms.

In short, much stronger than their sailing little wooden boats!

Therefore, after the relocation of this batch of non-standard ships in the 12 countries of Nanyang, they engaged in the relocation of the Kingdom of Denmark, and then generally continued to serve in overseas regions such as Europe, providing transportation services for the indigenous peoples of various countries.

However, these non-standard ships are not many!

Facing the huge transportation demand of African colonization, shipping companies all over the world could not find enough ships to operate African routes for a while!

They are not without ships~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but these ships have other uses, and most of them are actually cargo ships, and there are a large number of professional cargo ships in the cargo ships, such as refrigeration ships, grain ships, coal transportation Ships, ore carriers, oil tankers, and new types of cargo ships and container ships that have come out in recent years.

There are a lot of passenger ships outside the cargo ship, but these passenger ships are also specially aimed at the people of the empire, and most of them run on the Western Pacific waters or global routes.

Besides, can you imagine transporting a group of natives on a 30,000-ton luxury liner like the Nova?

Even if the Feng Shipping Company dares to use the luxury liner Nova Star to transport the indigenous people, the indigenous people can't afford it!

Furthermore, it is very important that although the major shipping companies seem to be making a fortune from the African route, they are also very clear that compared to the huge shipping share within the empire, the African route is only a small head, and there is still no way. lasts too long.

It is impossible to disrupt the strategic deployment of local business just because of some overseas business. This is putting the cart before the horse.

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